Decent article, but some remarks:
1) It seems these two statements conflict with each other:
> The oldest such transaction sets the cutoff—referred to as the "MVCC horizon." Until that transaction completes, every dead tuple newer than its snapshot is retained.
and
> For example, imagine three analytics queries, each running for 40 seconds, staggered 20 seconds apart. No individual query would trigger a timeout for running too long. But because one is always active, the horizon never advances, and the effect on vacuum is the same as one transaction that never ends.
If the three analytics *transactions* (it's transactions that matter, not queries, although there is some subtlety around deferred transactions not acquiring a snapshot until the first query) are started at different times, they will have staggered snapshots and so once the first completes, this should allow the vacuum to advance.
2) Although the problem about this query:
SELECT * FROM jobs
WHERE status = 'pending'
ORDER BY run_at
LIMIT 1
FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED;
There is a little subtlety around how you guarantee that the column is monotonically increasing, given concurrent writers, but the answer to that depends on what tricks you can fit into your application.
3) I almost want to say that the one-line summary is 'Don't combine (very) long-running transactions with (very) high transaction rates in Postgres'
(Is this a fair representation?)